UGCC cleric: By going underground, the UOC is trying to imitate us Uniates

Yustyn Boyko. Photo: screenshot from the “Velykyi Lviv” channel

In an interview with the YouTube channel “Velykyi Lviv,” UGCC priest Yustyn Boyko spoke about the situation surrounding the UOC and about attempts by its adherents to continue their religious life under conditions of bans and restrictions.

In his view, UOC believers are attempting to go underground, imitating the Greek Catholics who were driven into the catacombs by the Soviet system. Boyko, however, is convinced it will not work.

“They’re not the kind of people who can sacrifice anything, you know,” Yustyn Boyko said. “And I do understand these people in the sense that they were persuaded, they were convinced. But I can’t understand why they don’t want to look at these things with different eyes,” he declared, presenting his stance as self-evident.

He said it is difficult for him to “grasp the mentality” of UOC believers.

“I even have friends now – people I married, so to speak. Later they moved to other regions and began going to the Moscow Orthodox Church (UOC – Ed.). And they found something there, something different. And when I ask them: ‘Why do you go, if you know they bless the war against Ukraine?’ – they fall silent, they can’t say anything, and at the same time they don’t change their life position,” Boyko complained.

Earlier, the UOJ reported that, according to Boyko, the “illness” of UOC believers is cured by death.

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